1 74 Bedotim Tribes of the Euphrates, [ch. xxnr. 



tliere is no branch of tlie Kliabiir called the Sinjar, 

 nor indeed any such branch at all. So that should 

 disappear from the maps. The southern waters 

 from the Sinjar hills terminate all in the Subkhas 

 or salt lakes. In the Hamad, beyond fixing the 

 position of the Jebel Ghorab, which I see on 

 Kiepert's map seventy miles south west of its actual 

 position, and ascertaining the existence of a line 

 of fresh-water pools supplied by rain each Avinter 

 between the Ghota, near Damascus and the Eu- 

 phrates we have done nothing of any value. The 

 routes between Palmyra and Damascus are too well- 

 known to need other remark than that the Jebel 

 Euak is no separate peak, as some make out, but a 

 name o;iven to the southernmost ridg;e of the main 

 chain of hills, and that the plain of Saighal contains 

 a large fresh-water lake. I have marked, however, 

 the position of certain springs and wells for the use 

 of future travellers. I fear none of this will allow 

 us to claim a R. G. S.'s medal. 



